Convert any YouTube video to text — instantly.
Turn videos, podcasts, and lectures into clean, readable text. Copy it, search it, or download it as a file.
Reading is roughly four times faster than watching. Converting a YouTube video to text means you can scan a 60-minute talk in 5 minutes, search for a specific quote, or paste relevant chunks straight into your notes. Transcriptifyyt does the conversion in seconds, with timestamps if you want them and without if you don't.
- Full text of the video in seconds
- Toggle timestamps on or off for clean copy-paste
- Built-in search to find any phrase in the transcript
- Works for lectures, podcasts, interviews, tutorials
- 100% free — no signup, no install
How it works
- Step 1
Paste the link
Drop a YouTube URL into the input box. You can paste several at once for batch conversion.
- Step 2
Convert to text
Transcriptifyyt extracts the captions and returns the full text content with optional timestamps.
- Step 3
Use the text
Copy it, search it, or download it as a .txt file — with or without timestamps.
Why convert YouTube videos to text?
Text is searchable, quotable, translatable, and accessible. A 90-minute podcast becomes a scrollable document you can Ctrl+F. A keynote becomes source material for an article. A tutorial becomes step-by-step notes you can follow without scrubbing back and forth. Once a video is in text form, the cost of getting value out of it drops dramatically.
From text to anything
Transcriptifyyt doesn't stop at extraction. Once you have the text, you can paste it into your notes, drop the SRT into a video editor, or hand the JSON to a script. The same workflow that converts video to text powers a much faster way to consume, search, and reuse long-form content.
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Paste any YouTube URL and get a clean, timestamped transcript in seconds.